The Alisa Childers Podcast The Sabbatical Series: 5 Ways Progressive Christianity and New Age Spirituality Are Kind of the Same Thing
Dec 27, 2023
Exploring the similarities between progressive Christianity and new age spirituality, this podcast discusses the rise of new age beliefs, debates around atonement theory, the abandonment of sin, relativization of truth, and the concept of universalism. It also highlights the dangers of progressive Christians falling for false ideologies.
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Sin Redefined, Truth Relativized
- Progressive Christianity and New Age spirituality share a redefinition or rejection of sin, seeing it as shame or forgetting one's divinity rather than wrongdoing.
- They also both reject absolute truth, replacing biblical authority with subjective feelings or cultural shifts as moral compasses.
Denial of Jesus' Atonement
- Both New Age and many progressive Christians accept Jesus but deny his blood atonement, seeing him mostly as a moral example.
- This view is called "Christ Consciousness," emphasizing inner salvation over Jesus' sacrificial death and resurrection.
Self as Part of Divinity
- New Age thought and some progressive theology center on the self as divine and integral to God's nature.
- This leads to a theological shift where God includes human selves as part of the divine trinity or essence.